Like Stewart Roddie, Franck was also surprised at the tolerance Berliners showed their conquerors and at the way Allied soldiers were able to wander freely about the city unconcerned for their safety. ‘Doughboys were quite as much at home along Unter den Linden as if they had been strolling down Main Street in Des Moines,’ he wrote. However, the anti-communism and anti-Semitism that were to become such hallmarks of Germany’s inter-war years were already much in evidence. On every available wall were plastered virulently coloured posters warning of the blood-curdling deeds Bolshevism would
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